The vaccine foundation for an adult Rex
Vaccination for an adult Rex starts with the standard rabbit core for your region: where the vaccines are licensed and offered, protection against myxomatosis and rabbit haemorrhagic disease, including the newer haemorrhagic variant, with boosters maintained on her vet's schedule. Country-by-country availability varies, and the local rabbit-savvy vet is the right authority for her exact timetable. Keep each vaccine and due date documented, because her record will be checked by boarding facilities and may be needed if she is ever seen by an unfamiliar emergency vet.
Velvet fur means thinner protection for skin and feet
The Rex coat feels like velvet because the guard hairs are shortened, and that same structure leaves her skin and feet less defended than a normal-coated rabbit's. Sore hocks are the breed's signature preventable problem: the fur over her hocks wears thin, the skin beneath reddens, and a heavy rabbit on hard flooring can progress to open sores. Prevention is environmental — deep, soft, dry bedding, cushioned resting surfaces, and no wire floors — backed by regular hands-on checks of both hocks so thinning fur is caught while a flooring change can still reverse it.
Weight control protects a Rex's feet and joints
For an adult Rex, weight management is foot medicine. Every extra increment of condition presses her under-protected hocks into the floor for more hours a day, and also loads joints that plush fur makes hard to assess by eye. A hay-led diet, measured treats, regular recorded weigh-ins, and an honest body-condition check by feel at every vet visit form her real preventive programme. Ask the vet to note her weight and hock condition together at the vaccine appointment, since the two trends explain each other.
Skin surveillance in a short, dense coat
The Rex's short coat makes some checks easier and hides others. Mites and fungal patches can show as subtle thinning or flaking in fur that already looks close-cropped, so part the coat along her back and behind her ears during regular handling and note anything that changes. Flystrike prevention matters as much for a Rex as for any breed: daily rear-end checks in warm weather, clean dry housing, and fast attention to soiled fur. Whether she needs preventive parasite cover depends on her contact with the outdoors and other animals, which her vet can judge at the annual visit.
Teeth and the rest of the annual review
Underneath the breed-specific concerns, an adult Rex needs the same thorough annual review as any rabbit: a full dental inspection including cheek teeth, gut sounds, ear check, and nail trim before overlong nails change how her weight lands on those vulnerable feet. If she is not neutered, discuss it at this visit, since neutering prevents reproductive disease and is simplest to arrange while she is healthy and her vaccinations are current. Leave with the findings written down rather than summarised verbally.
Keeping a Rex's distinctive history together
A Rex's preventive story is unusually specific: vaccine dates, a weight curve, and a running account of hock fur and skin that only makes sense when each visit can be compared with the last. Scattered notes break that chain, and a new vet reading fragments cannot tell whether her hocks are stable or slowly worsening. Keeping the whole sequence in KinsLe's Pet Passport means your Rex rabbit's vaccination cover and foot history read as one continuous record at every appointment.